Durban (South Africa), South Africa
A round object in the sky with an aura of light around it moving very slowly across the sky. The object seemed as if it was in space an
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-29
- Where
- Durban (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 6 minutes
- Geo
- -29.858, 31.029 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-durban-south-africa-2013-4ca8b1
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Durban (South Africa), South Africa has 15 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 10 reports from South Africa.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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